Simple Bean and Pasta Soup

Let’s see if I can remember how to do this. Those of you who know me in real life/Facebook will know I’m currently 8 months pregnant, hence the blogging hiatus. I am now at a stage where I can eat foods other than salt and vinegar crisps, cereal, mashed potatoes and pineapple rings (not all at the same time…., but sometimes at 5am😦 ) I can now chop an onion without feeling the urge to vomit so hurray! Back in the room!

Since I’ve been able to cook again I’ve made a few things – this cheese and onion loaf which whilst tasting nice, was as dense as a very dense thing. When a recipe says “lukewarm milk” (as nice as that sounds) it does mean it and cold milk from the fridge will make things go wrong. Still, it looks good and I’ve learnt my lesson for next time…

This Three Bean Loaf (loaf theme!) from Vegan on the Cheap by Robin Robertson (great name) was made for a Sunday dinner and fed two of us for at least three meals along with veg and roast potatoes. Sadly for some weird reason I don’t have a picture of it once out of the oven (and it looked a lot better than it does here) So this is it is before going in to cook. It was really easy to make and I now have ARMS OF STEEL after all the bean mashing involved…

Finally, for lunch today I wanted something light as despite being 35 weeks tomorrow, morning sickness still sometimes rears its ugly evil head and I wasn’t feeling great so I improv’d some soup. The (loose) recipe is below: